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Damn, I just found out yesterday that Monday was National Napping Day, I missed it! All my calendar says for March 9th is Labour Day in Australia, there was no mention of a national napping day.How do these days become official, is there a committee that sits around a table discussing possibilities. Well they listened to Wiliam Anthony and his wife Camille. 10 years ago (how did I miss this for 10 years) they began the observance on the first full day of daylight savings. Their theory is that naps boost productivity…and costs less than a cup of coffee. If this theory is right then why is there a Starbucks on every corner instead of a mattress shop? Just think of how much time and money you would save not going to Starbucks and waiting in their lines. You could take a pretty nice yearly vacation with your savings!

I have never been able to nap; I have tried but always seem to fail unless I am sick. I can’t meditate either, maybe it has something to do with not being able to calm the mind or maybe my 9 hours I get every night is enough. My younger son is a great napper; he could teach the art of napping. He has a laid back personality which I think may be part of the talent. And at what age do people stop fighting and start begging to take a nap. We all know pre-school kids will do anything not to nap but college students would love a 5 minute siesta. UCSD had their first nap-in yesterday; maybe the craze will make its way across the US. Or is this just a laid back California thing going on?

My question is, the only time I love my coffee is when I wake up, so am I supposed to wake up and take a nap?

Everyone has a different list of things that gross them out. Yesterday I was at a store and there was a mom and her 4 year old at the counter paying. The child’s face came right even with the counter and for the whole transaction he sucked on the counters edge with his mouth. All I kept thinking of was all the germs entering that child’s body and how many hands had touched that counter. I so wanted to say something to the mom but knew that was not my place. It got me thinking of other things I have seen that disturb me…

1.Adults that pick their nose and eat it…yes, I have seen this especially with men driving cars (I have not seen women yet). What they hell are they thinking? I know woman mature faster then men but that is ridiculous!

2.People kissing animals on their mouths…I know this one is more common but sorry, do they not see where animal’s mouths have been? They lick anything and everything!

3.Ok, this one is not ordinary but I hate to see people with bare feet (usually dirty) and they put them on their or other people’s couches. Sometimes people lay down on couches…I don’t want my head or face where your dirty feet were.

4.Speaking of feet, I once saw this guy with flip flops on and it looked like his feet have had no attention since he was born (and he was in his 50’s). I was eating lunch at the time and had to move my seat so they would not be in my view…that is how bad they were. Groom your feet!

5.Spitting is also gross…why do people think they can do this in public? First they make that sound in their throat getting the spit ready which is disgusting in itself. Then saliva from their mouth is ejected onto public areas…yuck! I was once eating on a restaurant patio and again, a 50 year old man exited the restaurant and spit…just a few feet from where I was eating. Disgusting!

Last night I met 3 friends for happy hour and after splitting the bill equally 4 ways there was an odd amount of singles left to be split when the server brought us back the change (server, not waitress, but that’s another post). So what does any normal group of people in a bar do to decide who gets that extra dollar change…you play rock- paper-scissors (we’re not a cheap group of people but we like to have fun). Now to be honest I don’t know this game well, I have only seen other people play. I grew up on the east coast and we didn’t play this, we did odds or evens. Once, twice, three…shoot! This game at least makes sense to me; it is either odd or even. This RPS game is odd, rock crushes scissor, scissor cuts paper and this one makes no sense to me…paper covers rock. Paper covers rock; that is just dumb.

Then my curiosity got the best of me this morning and I read up on rock-paper-scissor aka rochambeau on my pal Wikipedia. I couldn’t find a date of origin but learned they actually have an RPS Society and a RPS League. I may look into this league since it is sponsored by my beer of choice, Bud Light! There is a Las Vegas tournament that you win $50,000, how could I have not known about this other world. Is this game not luck, don’t you just stick out one of three hand gestures?

Now I did find that the East Coast version, odds or evens (aka Morra) goes back thousands of years to Ancient Roman and Greek times. When up to me I will always choose this version of the game, makes more sense; a rock could easily tear up a piece of paper.

Here are a few quotes from some of my favorite shows, please share your fav’s!

FAMILY TIES-

Alex: Mallory, someone stupid called… sometime today… about something trivial.Mallory: Alex, you know that could be any one of my friends.

BECKER

Becker: Who the hell is this guy? The president? Does he have the launch codes or something? I mean, how inflated does your ego have to be to think that the earth’s gonna spin off its axis if you miss a call? Frankly, I’d pay extra for a device that would make it harder for the world to find me.

THE DREW CAREY SHOW

Kate: Oh, my God! How could you lie on the bible?Lewis: Well, it’s simple. I’m a single, forty-one-year-old janitor. What’s God gonna do? Take that away from me?

FRASIER

Frasier: You refused to take me to see West Side Story on my eighth birthday.Martin: Because of the gangs! Those would be scary to any kid!Frasier: Even gangs that dance?Martin: Especially gangs that dance!

FRIENDS

Chandler: Want some chocolate milk?Ross: No thanks, I am twenty-nine.

SPIN CITY

Mike: My grandmother thought that a homosexual was a person who slept with one person their whole life. We were gonna let it slide but she kept telling the mailman she was a homosexual.

WILL AND GRACE

Karen: You know CPR?Jack: Oh, yeah. I had to do it on my father when I told him I was gay… Only I think it just confused him even more.

Ok, you’re on a deserted island for the rest of your life and can only have ONE T.V show, what would it be? I would pick Friends, 10 years worth of a great comedy & cast would keep me entertained and now, (let’s all keep our fingers crossed)a possible movie!! Thanks to the success of Sex and the City, Friends may follow suit. Seeing “PIVOT” on the big screen, what more could you ask for! I would have to think Friends would do better at the box office then Sex and the City, I know plenty of men who would have to concur. We all have some “friends” in us; I am a clean freak, I love clothes and I have a little hippie in me…that all three females! How many times does something happen in life and you can always refer back to a Friends episode…I’m ready for more.

2nd runners up for my deserted island choice: Roseanne or Seinfeld…what would you choose?